Part 1 with Dr. Kim Chan Ko: The Multifaceted Career

Kimberly Chan Ko, M.D. is a board-certified ophthalmologist and diplomate of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. She is the co-founder of Ketamine StartUp, an online course teaching physicians how to open their own ketamine infusion clinic. Dr. Chan Ko created Ketamine StartUp with her emergency medicine physician husband after several years as the creative director of their own ketamine infusion clinic -Reset Ketamine in Palm Springs, CA.

She is a graduate of Pacific Union College with a B.S. in Business Administration. She obtained her medical education at Loma Linda University where she also completed her ophthalmology residency. She has been trained in coaching by Co-Active Coaching Institute. She is passionate about professional development, and how patient care begins with personal healing and growth in physicians.

You can download your free ketamine clinic checklist and business plan worksheet at: https://ketaminestartup.com/revitalizingdoctor

Social media/ways to connect:
Dr. Kim Chan Ko's IG profile is @Drkimberlyko
Her husband and her's ketamine clinic @resetketamine (FB, IG, Twitter)
To learn more about starting your ketamine clinic, follow them: @ketaminestartup (FB, IG, Twitter)

In the podcast, we mentioned that there is some literature supporting the use of coaching for physician well-being. Here are the articles:
1) Skinner, Sarah C. PhD*,†; Mazza, Stéphanie PhD*; Carty, Matthew J. MD‡; Lifante, Jean-Christophe MD*,§; Duclos, Antoine MD*,†,‡. Coaching for Surgeons: A Scoping Review of the Quantitative Evidence. Annals of Surgery Open: September 2022 - Volume 3 - Issue 3 - p e179.
2) Dyrbye LN, Shanafelt TD, Gill PR, Satele DV, West CP. Effect of a Professional Coaching Intervention on the Well-being and Distress of Physicians: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2019 Oct 1;179(10):1406-1414. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.2425. PMID: 31380892; PMCID: PMC6686971.

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